Brooks' Baby Balm
Object Details
- William Brooks Medicine Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A soothing quiet remedy to regulate the stomach and bowels of infants and children. For teething troubles, summer complaint, diarrhea and constipation. A laxative, sedative, digestive, neutralizing, aromatic, and antiseptic. Equally effectual for diarrheas and bowel troubles in adults.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- after 1906
- ID Number
- MG.M-10414.05
- catalog number
- M-10414
- accession number
- 246707
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
- Physical Description
- alcohol 11% (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 14.5 cm x 5 cm x 2.5 cm; 5 11/16 in x 1 15/16 in x in
- box: 5 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in x 1 in; 14.605 cm x 5.3975 cm x 2.54 cm
- bottle: 5 1/8 in x 2 in x 7/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 5.08 cm x 2.2225 cm
- Place Made
- United States: Arkansas, Russellville
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Diarrhea Drugs
- Laxatives
- Infant & Children's Products - Pediatrics
- collection
- G.E. Damon Collection
- Record ID
- nmah_715104
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-5069-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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